Author: Kiel Hyre
Description: Kakashi has a dark past, but maybe his opinion of dark differs from others.
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I would probably be rich.
There was nothing they could do, absolutely nothing.
This new weapon, this 'bomb', was unbeatable! No matter how many times they tried to disarm it, they couldn't because it would start to detonate! Kakashi arrived on the scene as despair radiated from the ninja present. They had evacuated the area, but there was no telling how big the explosion would be. They had only seen the weapon once before, and they had no desire to see it again.
In fact, they had sent every ANBU and interrogator they had to find out who worked on it and kill them, but not before they found out where every record was, so they could destroy it. Surprisingly, Cloud country, where the bomb was made, had assisted the destruction of the weapon and its ilk. That hadn't stopped one man from slipping into the city and setting one up though. A kunai caught him in the back of the head as he ran, but the damage was done.
Kakashi was in a thinking position, when he heard a chirping noise. Looking down he saw what had made it. It was Steve, the nin-hamster!
Kakashi smiled in spite of himself, "Steve, how can I help you?"
The hamster chirped, and other looked towards the two.
"You think so?" the rodent nodded. Kakashi looked at the others, "He says he can crawl inside of it and disable it from the inside." He seemed upset by the thought, but it was the only way.
There was a collective gasp, and Steve chirped while nodding sagely, he was the only one who could do it; don't try to talk him out it. That was the message. Everyone nodded their agreement and began to flee the area in case the worst happened. Kakashi looked torn.
"I- I can't let you do this, it's suicide!" he was almost crying, "Steve, just let it blow! We can rebuild the – urk!" Steve had tackled him in stomach hard enough to knock him out. A ninja who had been waiting grabbed the cyclopean jonin and dashed off as fast as his feet could carry him.
Steve, now alone, chirped sadly before entering the device. This, this was his chance to help everyone!
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Thirty minutes later everyone heard a… sound. It couldn't be described, but there was no explosion. Kakashi was the first to run towards the bomb site.
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When the others arrived, they found Kakashi weeping over a crator, so small it couldn't have been made by the bomb.
"He…" the silver-haired man choked out, "He sent both the bomb and himself to another dimension! He sacrificed himself for all of us!"
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Kakashi was snapped out of his flashback by several cries of "YOU'RE LATE!"
He shrugged coolly, followed by "I was lost on the road of life."
His two students cried out in protest but he knew; he knew how wrong they were.
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END
A/N: I just had to write it. I had no choice.